By Nick Harris 5 September 2010 The cricket ‘spot-fixing scandal’ took its latest extraordinary twist this evening when the Pakistan batsman, Yasir Hameed, released a statement detailing how the News of the World - and specifically its investigations editor, Mazher Mahmood - had misrepresented Hameed's views, had offered to pay him £25,000 to talk about three team-mates accused of spot-fixing, and then, when he declined, had made threats to publish a video of him drinking wine (something that would play badly in Pakistan, not least during Ramadan).